What does CPSIA certified mean?

What does CPSIA certified mean?

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is a United States Government law restricting levels of hazardous materials in products imported or made within the US, especially those for children.

What is a CPSIA regulated items?

CPSIA is designed to allow the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) to better regulate the safety of products made and imported for sale in the U.S. CPSIA also contains regulations that are intended to make products for children under age 12 safer by requiring manufacturers and importers to show that these …

What is CPSIA warning?

cpsia-warning1 cpsia-warning4 Use this field to indicate if a cautionary statement relating to the choking hazards of children’s toys and games applies to your product.

Is product testing legal?

Cosmetics are required to be safe when consumers use them according to directions in the labeling, or in the customary or expected way. Product testing is just one of the things a manufacturer might do to ensure the safety of a cosmetic product.

What is a CPSIA tracking label?

The CPSIA tracking label is a permanently affixed information label, helping the CPSC and consumers (i.e. parents) to identify unsafe products, in case of a recall. The tracking label normally includes information about the importer company, production location and date, and batch number.

What is CPSIA exempt?

What does this mean? The exemption relieves toys and child care article manufacturers using the specified plastics with additives that are listed above from the CPSIA Section 108 phthalate content testing requirement at a CPSC-accepted third-party lab.

Can a product be ISO certified?

ISO certification does not apply to specific products. In fact, about the only you can say about a product is that the management system used by the company producing the product was certified.

Does my product need to be certified?

There is no requirement that a manufacturer or importer of general use (non-children’s) products periodically retest and certify their products. Generally, however, it is good practice to retest your consumer product whenever there is a material change to the product.

How do you become Cpsia compliant?

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA)

1. Comply with all applicable children’s product safety rules;
2. Be tested for compliance by a CPSC-accepted accredited laboratory, unless subject to an exception;
3. Have a written Children’s Product Certificate that provides evidence of the product’s compliance; and.